City Drug Stores Observe National Fountain Week in Amarillo
City Drug Stores of Amarillo will observe Rexall's National Fountain Week starting Wednesday with specials at four locations 517 Polk 708 West Sixteenth Avenue 500 North Fillmore and 3323 West Sixth San Jacinto. The opening menu features orange ade jumbo soda milk shake and crushed strawberry ice cream with nine cent jumbo sodas and other promos amid curb service and large parking spaces.
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City Drug Stores
Amarillo
Rexall
City Drug
Polk
West
Sixteenth Avenue
North Fillmore
West Sixth
San Jacinto
Earl Barnt
Old Tack
Steffens
Divorce Trial Beset By Stolen Books In Costello Case
Los Angeles May 10. Helene Costello’s library, cited in the divorce suit of actor Lowell Sherman against his wife, is discussed as two salacious volumes disappeared from the courtroom. The trial featured extensive evidence about the marriage and Costello’s conduct, with witnesses describing quarrels and turbulent domestic scenes.
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Los Angeles
Helene Costello
Lowell Sherman
Sherman
Helene
Fanny Hill
Thomas Ambrose
W. I. Gilbert
Paul W. Schenck
Miss Costello
Maury Cohen
Cohen
Charles Beyers
Julia Louise Sherman
Price Dance Persistent as Old Lady Sues Railro ad
A 72 year old widow sues a railroad for damages after a porter allegedly kicked away a footstool causing her to fall on a station platform. The column muses on dancing, family reactions, and whether a jury will award damages. The piece references Ellen Terry and era social tones.
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Winifred Black
Harlem
Ellen Terry
Receipts From Play Support Crippled Children Clinic
Amarillo College Players stage The Man From Mexico for a second time at the high school auditorium to aid the Crippled Children’s Clinic. The domestic comedy in which Mrs. Lloyd Fletcher Sr. revised most of the cast will be performed Friday night with funds from the first show already used to equip the clinic.
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Mexico
Amarillo College Players
Amarillo
Lloyd Fletcher
Railroad seeks halt on passenger train discontinuance
The Texas and New Orleans Railroad filed suit in Travis County district court to restrain the railroad commission from blocking the discontinuation of passenger trains 101 and 102 between Houston and El Paso. The article also notes about 90 percent of food taken by Chinese is in grain form.
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Austin
Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company
Travis County
Texas Railroad Commission
Houston
el Paso
Identified Train Victim From Dalhart Rites
Funeral services were held in Dalhart for George Wade a 32 year old Tex line pipeline worker killed when he fell under a moving freight train April 19. Identification came from scars a knife and letters found on the body. Survivors include a widow two young children and multiple relatives.
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George Wade
Texline
Floyd Girard
Dalhart
B. E. Girard
Olney
Ward
Georgia
Elvis
Rush W. Ward
Fort Worth
Young W
Alfred W. Ward
Kilgore
Swaney
Lucille Howe
Dancer Adele Astaire Marries Lord Cavendish at Chatsworth
Adele Astaire aged 31 wed Lord Charles Cavendish in a private Chatsworth Chapel ceremony at the Derbyshire estate. The marriage joins the prominent dancer with the Cavendish family, the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire serving as parents to the groom.
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Bakerwell
Derbyshire
England
Adele Astaire
Atlantic
Lord Charles Cavendish
Chatsworth House
Duke
Duchess of Devonshire
Miss Astaire
Engagement Adage: A Girl Should Marry a Younger Man
A barbed proverb notes that shortly after engagement a girl should marry a man younger. The remark implies a strategy for marital compatibility, reflecting social norms hinted at in the period.
Wife Keeps To Rule As Husband Remains Three Years Her Junior
The narrator notes the wife adheres to a rule while mentioning her husband is three years younger. The brief aside emphasizes age difference in the couple within a domestic context.
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Allen Grag
William Case
Fanny Patton
Grace Diggs
Monroe Cato
Do. A. Fomby
Darrell Grundy
Lela Hunter
Leslie Jones
Charles Seiwell
W. C. Wilson
Raymond Shelton
Max Zweig
Billy Coffey
Irene Stevenson
King Features Syn., Inc
Arnholz
Vetesk Market
Polk St
Mattie Ward
East Texas
Blackburn
All City Drug Store
Lincoln St
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Berry
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